22 episodes
Buckinghamshire History Festival Buckinghamshire Archives
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Bringing history home!
From pioneering women professionals to a futuristic escapade to save the world’s archives, join us as we connect you with local stories and hidden histories from further afield, through video talks, podcasts, blogs, and interactive events for families.
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Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company
Katherine Gwyn talks to Louise Allen about her involvement with Bucks Archives' Black History Research Group, and her research into the connections between a company based at Slough Trading Estate and Pitch Lake, Trinidad.
**29 min** -
Mary does Marlow
Mark Bateman (Buckinghamshire Libraries) interviews arguably Marlow's most famous resident, author of Frankenstein's Monster, and inventor of the science fiction genre, Mary Shelley.
**20min** -
A Burial in Oving, 1946: the life of George Laurence Bazett Hull and his crew
Wing Commander George Laurence Bazett Hull died in an air crash in 1946, and was buried in Oving, Buckinghamshire. When a team of archaeologists and historians found the wreckage of this crash in a field in 2017, they did not anticipate the journey that Hull, or 'BOK' as he was known to some, would take them on. Here is that story.
**46 min** -
Black Bucks Lives: Samson Ethiope, the Herberts, Henery Pompey and Catherine Duleep Singh
Tony Sargeant talks Archivist Katherine Gwyn through some of his research into Black Lives in Buckinghamshire, conducted as part of Buckinghamshire Archives' Black History Research Group. The lives discussed include Samson Ethiope, Pharo, Ann, John and Mary Herbert, Henery Pompey and Catherine Duleep Singh.
**33 min** -
Dillibe Onyeama: A Black Boy at Eton
In 1969 Dillibe Onyeama became the first Black pupil to finish his studies at Eton College, which was then in Buckinghamshire. Three years later he published his memoirs documenting that experience. Dillbe has gone on to have a long and successful career in publishing, and as an author. Ahead of Penguin's new edition of his first book, Judi McGinley and Katherine Gwyn link-up with Dillibe from his home in Nigeria.
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Where are the Black Lives at Bucks Archives? A conversation with Dr Caroline Bressey
Here at Buckinghamshire Archives we have been running a project during 2021: the Black History Research Group, with the aim of hunting through our collections to find Black Lives that date to before 1948. But we were struggling - this is a hard ask. So Katherine Gwyn reached out for help, and who better than Dr Caroline Bressey? Caroline has researched black Victorians in London, and was sure to have some wisdom to share...
**22 min**